[aerogear-dev] Improving customization abilities of OpenShift cartridge

[Bruno Oliveira]

On 2014-10-23, Matthias Wessendorf wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Karel Piwko <kpiwko at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I'd like to know your opinion on following changes to UnifiedPush
> > Server. They are both focused on improving customization process for the
> > cartridge.
> >
> > Just in short, current update process now:
> > 1/ Clone official git repository of cartridge
> > 2/ Extract wars and do the modifications or build ones
> > 3/ Package wars
> > 4/ Push cartridge to your own repository
> > 5/ Create cartridge from your own repository
> >
> > Whereas, I'm proposing:
> > 1/ Create cartridge from official repository
> > 2/ Clone git repository for gear created by Openshift (by default if rhc
> > is used)
> > 3/ Modify some files there we expose for user modification
> > 4/ Push back to make changes live
> >
> > What particular configuration elements I'm interested to have
> > externalized?
> >
> > 1/ Ability to load keycloak.json from external location
> >
> > => This allows user to create cartridge and modify it prior the first
> > access. This allows users to configure it to be consumable by other
> > services automatically, e.g. they can add developer users, roles, etc.
> >
>
> hrm, in theory, yeah, that could be possible. Perhaps Stian or abstractj
> have an idea here

Everything is possible with software, the question is: do we really need
this? How would you feel if keycloak.json was changed by the wrong
person?

Can we as a project guarantee the security of this file outside the
server?

>
>
>
> >
> > 2/ Externalize GCM/APNs locations
> >
> > => Now, URLs are hardcoded in GCM/APNs JARs.
>
>
> yes, they are considered stable APIs :)
>
> We are not going to 'externalize' these URLs
>
>
> > If they would be loaded
> > from external location (defaults can still be hardcoded), this allows
> > user to easily check business logic that queries data in UPS and not
> > sending any messages. Also allows to put proxy in between UPS and
> > APNs/GCMs.
> >
> > Both these will significantly reduce QE overhead. However, I believe
> > they are valuable for other as well.
> >
> > Feedback and tomatoes (I prefer plum ones) are welcomed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Karel
> >
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